A lot of my work, lately, has focused on helping to rescue sucky internal communications programs. The general reasons for the almost perpetual suckiness of internal communications is the abject neglect of most of the programs. This can take the form of budgetary neglect: just because you hired someone to manage it, doesn’t mean it’s […]
Five Ways to Screw Up Change Communication
Organizational change is inevitable but lousy communication should not be. Here are five common (and avoidable) change communications mistakes.
HR’s Workforce Data Marinade
Last time we talked about finally getting rid of the annual employee survey and attempting some root cause analysis of what’s going on. I had a some lovely comments on that post, but a few private messages wondering about the data gap. For a lot of organizations, workforce sentiment insights begin and end with the […]
Why You Need to Kill Your Annual Employee Survey
Last time we looked at the five stages of employee survey grief. This is the part where the executive team grapples with the discomfort of learning that, despite all kinds of warm intent, the employees are really no more “engaged” than last year. The best-case scenario is they are whining about different things. The usual […]
Employee Communications Should Be Intentional
Hands up if you think your company is doing a great job of communicating with you. I don’t mean the daily nasty-gram about the security training; I mean the whole enchilada about mission, vision, values, goals, changes, culture and, yes, compliance training. Here’s why most organizations suck at employee communications: it’s nobody’s job. Not really. […]
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